Kevanf1 wrote:
On 5/2/05, scsijon <scsijon@net2000.com.au> wrote:
Wasn't going to attach but this thread is fun but needs to be back on topic, so i've changed the subject. Should we also move this to the "suse-ot@suse.com" thread?
I know of an organization (of decent size) where about a third of the workstations are 686's running Warp4 with all the necessary patches. The back end is an old IBM Mainframe. Been up and running nearly 10 years now, best back of house robot system ever we set up. Occasional workstation glitch, but not from the Rexx program's running, just usually a hard drive finally dying (220meg drive are starting to become hard to get).
scsijon <SPLAT!>
Wasn't there talk of OS/2 being released under the GPL? I'm afraid I can only remember the tv adverts for OS/2 WARP and it went over my head then. I thought "what the hell is all that about?" then went back to watching Doctor Who.....but then, nothing much changes :-))))
I have only seen an article reported on a number of sites urging IBM to release it GPL, but no statement or response from Blue. It would probably involve them in too much work sifting out third party IP and their development guys have moved on. I've never had a proper tour of OS/2 on a workstation to see what it could do, but I've met it in hardware management consoles (HMC's) and Support Elements (SE's) on mainframes where initially customers seeing OS/2 had all kinds of plans for reconfiguring its networking, but it was suitably crippled so they couldn't save their changes. I set up all kinds of tricky network configs, like at BT getting all HMC's to talk to all mainframes at sites across the UK, but I still felt an OS/2 novice. We had a longstanding bug on a customer site in Switzerland and they paid for my 4 day trip to fix/gather information, as a result, we nailed it, passed the info back to the States where they then realised it was the problem many sites stateside were having, but they couldn't get a handle on what was happening. I liked the ease with which we could setup all kinds of complex networking on the one box and get it working reliably, e.g 4 HMC's in Hampshire controlling mainframes in California. The only pet peeve was the trouble I had to go to in finding a free .ini editor where you didn't have to register with machines which were isolated from the internet, but I eventually found one. OS/2 was fun, but Linux trumped it for me and IBM it seems. Pity I never got to see the Linux based HMC's now shipping. My question of longstanding --- What in OS/2 would you like to see in linux apart from the Workplace and isn't gnome/kde providing much the same in a different way, perhaps Workplace is better organised? Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce ... Hamradio License G3VBV, Keen licensed Private Pilot Retired IBM Mainframes and Sun Servers Tech Support Specialist Microsoft Windows Free Zone - Linux for all Computing Tasks